Slang, your engine is way too clean. You may need to spread some grease and mud on there to appease the Rover Gods.

 

bro i've been cleaning it like crazy......i want to find all the leaks and then let it go another ten years. yours is filllllthy.

 

Hahaha, if I clean it now it will leak more. I'm not ready for that kind of commitment! But yeah it's filthy, I'll get around to it eventually. No sense cleaning it all when I'm planning a rebuild within the next year or two. I've got a whole fleet to maintain too...

 

Thank you, Danny. I'm going to order a few of them. Also, this helps me justify another oil change to add an oil temp/press sender. I should probably wait at least a month though.

 

Slang, use the little clips for the wires on the valve covers if you can. I should have also recommended to use some dielectric grease on the spark plugs/boots so they wont get rusty like the couple in the pic you showed.

Mountain Goat - Did you ever contact Kingsbourne about that? I have had my wires for a while now with no issues. Not sure what the hell happened to those?

 

I'm going to, I haven't yet. I'm guessing they'll take care of me. It's BS that a set of wires lasts less than 6 months on a weekend-only rig...

 

I showed those plugs really cause maybe someone was gonna say they looked bad or pointed to a specific problem......BUT, I'm pleased to say I did use the dielectic grease...so I got that right!!! I'll see how I can use the clips on the valve covers...they were there still so I should be able to use them. Can't remember why I didn't other than I was super tired and buzzed.

No idea when those plugs were last changed....I'm guessing more than ten years ago. Thanks.

 

Sweet good work, I put dielectric on everything but I take my truck thru water occastionally.

I couldnt really see the electrodes of the plug so it was hard to see how they were burning but they did look a little black.. glossy black is usually oil, ashey black is normally from a rich fuel mixture. You can find charts online to compare them too and see how your engines compression chambers are sealing and how the plugs are burning.

 

I would have disected one to see what was causing it. It has to be the insulation expanding due to heat and then it just stayed that way. I bet there is another coating of insulation under the red

 

The old mechanic I learned to wrench from always told me if the plug wires are visibly deformed it was a good idea to replace them. That said, I think that's an overly conservative rule, the wires may be fine underneath. I just lost confidence in their heat performance and wanted something better.